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What's the best fuel for a small smoke lamp?
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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Mineral spirits, charcoal lighter fluid or kerosene always works for me. Leave the wick tall and you'll get plenty o' black smoke with either one. This one is powered by mineral spirits. Hank
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Joe,
I remember as a kid my parents bought me a chemistry set. With the way the wax candles it came with would blacken test tubes I imagine you could use one of them.
Steve
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Joe,
Use the same spirit that you use to make your Spirit Stain.
I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.
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Paraffin ,which I believe you call kerosene ,is what I have used all my working life .Occasionally mixed a little motor oil if it was not sooty enough .
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Home heating oil or diesel fuel burns with a sooty flame too. When I've wanted an accumulation of lampblack to dye epoxy, lighting an acetylene brazing torch inside a tin can without turning on the oxygen provided plenty of soot.
A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.
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I use kerosene, no problem getting the work black(and my hands). Mike
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Back in my service rifle competition days, I used a miner's carbide lamp to blacken my sights, as did a number of my colleagues. Just unscrew the base, add a few pieces of carbide, spit in it and reassemble it. This should produce enough gas for ordinary blacking purposes. For more gas, just add more moisture. My lamp came with a cigarette lighter type device on the reflector to light it, so no need for matches.
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Carbide lamps work very well, also; but I have a hard time finding carbide now, the can I had lasted for years but had to be left behind in a "move". I had kerosene on hand, anyway, for emergency lamps. Mike.
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Plenty of carbide on line.
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